The intergenerational transfer of slow life history strategies via parental values:

Surviving, thriving, and the Dark Triad traits

INTRODUCTION MATERIALS & METHOD RESULTS CONCLUSIONS

Even if surviving values (e.g., tradition, conformity) Participants and Procedure Surviving and thriving values promoted during In conclusion, this is the first research that showed
and thriving values (self-direction, stimulation) Our sample was 271 (Mage = 20.36, SD = 4.20, childhood were correlated with slow life history that values promoted in the family are linked to
reflect, at first glance, two distinctive life principles 82.3% women) undergraduate psychology strategies. slow life history strategies and that thriving values
and philosophies, we argue that both of them students. All the participants consented to have an indirect effect on slow life history
should predict slow life history strategies. By participate. The measures were administered Those high in narcissism reported exposure to strategies through narcissism. Therefore, it is
assimilating the core of the values promoted by the online using the Google Forms platform. surviving and thriving values during their childhood; important to promote values in the family, no matter
family, the child develops slow life history the opposite was the case for those high in what values we talk about and what their nature is.
strategies, as all human values, both surviving and psychopathy. All values seem to lead to slow life history
Measures
thriving ones, refer to “rules of living” (Schwartz, strategies, which are related to rule compliance,
1992), and all of them mention the importance of Family values were measured using the taxonomy of empathy, and prosociality, which are important
planning, organizing, respecting others, respecting values proposed by Schwartz (1992), which consists of The link between thriving values promoted in characteristics to adapt to modern environments
the norms and the society 10 values (i.e., achievement, conformity). Five values childhood and slow life history strategies was and societies.
represent surviving values (i.e., benevolence, tradition, mediated by narcissism, such that individuals that
Considering the fact that the Dark Triad traits can
conformity, security, power), and five represent thriving were exposed to thriving values in their childhood
be understood as a behavioral manifestation of a
values (i.e., universalism, self-direction, stimulation, are high in narcissism and are characterized by
fast life history strategy (Jonason et al., 2017), we REFFERENCES
hedonism, achievement). slow life history strategies.
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Dark Triad measure (Jones & Paulhus, 2014). Jonason, P.K., Strosser, G.L., Kroll, C.H., Duineveld, J.J., &
OBJECTIVES
This finding may be explained by the fact that Baruffi, S.A. (2015). Valuing myself over others: The Dark
Data Analysis values represent most of our moral, social, Triad traits and moral and social values. Personality and
We aim to test to what extent the values promoted political, economic, philosophical, and religious Individual Differences, 81, 102-106.
The hypotheses were tested using structural
in one’s family are linked to life history strategies of beliefs (Tooby & Cosmides, 1990). These beliefs https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.10.045
equation modeling (SEM) in R software (R Core
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Team, 2017). The mediation model was tested
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childhood would lead to slow life history strategies. are enshrined in cultures. If a family actively
maximum likelihood estimation, bootstrapping, and https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.1990.tb00907.x
We also propose the Dark Triad Traits as promotes values to the children, the values
standardized coefficients. Goodness-of-fit was
mediators. develop into self-organizing principles, which
assessed using the following indices: Comparative CONTACT
As such, surviving and thriving values promoted in Fit Index (CFI), Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI), Root provide perceptual maps designed to help
one’s family should have an indirect effect on slow Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA), individuals better navigate their environments Vlad Burtaverde, PhD
life history strategies of the children through high and Standardized Root Mean Square Residuals (Eyal et al., 2009) to acquire resources and
levels of the Dark Triad traits. We treated life Associate Professor, University of Bucharest
(SRMR). achieve their goals (Schwartz, 1992). Moreover,
history strategies as general ways of adapting to clearly defined values that guide parents can give Evolutionary Psychologist
the environment and how people make sense of children a sense of security, and make the world Vice-president, Association of Personality and
their reality, where personality should serve as the more predictable, promoting the development of a Evolutionary Psychology
mechanism that links childhood values and secure attachment. Vice-National Research Coordinator for Romania,
responses to them. IEA comparative studies TIMSS, ICILS, ICCS
E-mail: vlad.burtaverde@fpse.unibuc.ro
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